You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[Jason Wynn]

More incredibly annoyed than pissed off, but I can't stand it when grown adults talk like kindergartners. Eat or drink something they enjoy? "Yummy yum yum in my tum tum!" Apologizing for something? "Saw-wee!" Excusing themselves to use the bathroom? "I gotta potty/tinkle!"

I find it almost grotesque in a way seeing people in their 30s still calling their parents "mommy and daddy" as well.

 

[LateNightMuffin]

I'm a very even tempered person but certain small sounds infuriate me.

"Mouth Sounds" absolutely send up me the wall. NPR radio voices are some of the worst offenders.

People picking or flicking their fingernails absently. Again, I can hear that sound from across a room and it instantly makes me grit my teeth and grip a table.

The worst part is that I know these are sounds people can't help. I'm the weird one for getting as mad as I do.

there's a word for this. misophonia.

i experience this too.

Misophonia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[LordofTendons]

Whoever first put salt in caramel snuffed out one of my thousand points of light. May his dogs all die and his sewers all overflow.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Aye, you know what pisses me off? Found out today I'm the spawn of Flanagans and McGregors. I don't want to be Irish!

 

[Marissa Moira]

Whoever first put salt in caramel snuffed out one of my thousand points of light. May his dogs all die and his sewers all overflow.

That's like the only fucking flavor of Ice Cream I can ever find at the store outside of Chocolate and Vanilla.

I WANT MY FUCKING FRUIT FLAVORS DAMN YOU, NOT THIS CANDY COATED SHIT!

 

[GinnyPotter]

People who clearly have a medical problem, have the money and means to go to the doctor but instead just complain about the problem every day. Claiming that they already know what's wrong and doctors are wrong.

Stop complaining, stop thinking you know best and just go to the fucking doctor! How can they be wrong if you've never been?

People who think reality t.v is real.
I mean just come on. It's scripted and fake and it's so goddamn obvious it is. How can grown people be that gulabile? It's honestly mind blowing sometimes.

People that bring their dogs everywhere. I almost tripped over this ladies dog at the grocery store multiple times because she had the dog on a leash and it was so far ahead of her, it was ridiculous. I also saw a woman who brought her dogs bed into the grocery store and put it in the cart while she was shopping. I really wish they would crack down on dogs in places they aren't supposed to be. It's clear these dogs aren't service dogs.

 

[AnOminous]

People who respond to low effort bait to point out that it's low effort bait, showing why only low effort is necessary in the first place.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

People who want their work to be taken seriously, but don't even put the slightest amount of effort into it, present it in a ridiculously childish way, and then get pissed when you try to give them genuine advice on how to improve it. Dude, no one is going to take your shitty DnD knock-off seriously if you write it in nothing, but broken English, l33t speak, and emojis.

Get over yourself.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

People who dramatically swing their vehicle out to the right to take a left turn.
You're not impressing anybody with that shit.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Douchebag old farts with some hunk of junk motorcycle who rev it up and tear out as loud as they can, usually extremely late at night. South Park said it many years ago, but it bears repeating, you're collosal faggots. Liberache was straighter than you.

 

[casE sensiTive]

This joke low effort joke format I've been seeing all year. It's always the same few catchphrases as the punchline. These ones came from a video on the Titanic. I've been seeing a lot of pushback against it lately so I guess people finally got tired of it.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

More incredibly annoyed than pissed off, but I can't stand it when grown adults talk like kindergartners. Eat or drink something they enjoy? "Yummy yum yum in my tum tum!" Apologizing for something? "Saw-wee!" Excusing themselves to use the bathroom? "I gotta potty/tinkle!"

I find it almost grotesque in a way seeing people in their 30s still calling their parents "mommy and daddy" as well.

Autists around where I live do this all the time, and I want to punch in the face whoever told them it was socially acceptable.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

People that pull a tab from the queue counter then goes through the trash to find someone that discarded a lower number so they can jump forward in the cue, from 156 to 097.

Those are the worst, the lowest of the low, that's not how that system works!

 

[ForgedBlades]

Jaywalkers, specifically people who cross when they don't have the signal. I walk to class everyday and have to cross one of the busiest intersections in town (for both traffic and pedestrians) to get there. People give zero fucks and just aimlessly walk into the street, I guess expecting that cars will slow down for them. Usually they are looking down at their phones too. I don't know how there aren't multiple fatalities a day there.

The one that pisses me off the most are the people who are walking north, see that they are clear of traffic driving in the eastbound lanes, and then stand in the two foot wide island that separates the lanes while traffic in the westbound lanes whizzes by them at 40 miles an hour. I bet that ten seconds you saved by crossing early will sure seem worth it when you get clipped by a pickup.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Just spent all afternoon and a good chunk of the evening in the hospital to be treated for something that shouldn't have taken that long. Fucking Oregon....goddamn crackheads and bums in there trying to get a morphine fix and they're the ones who get treated like kings and dealt with immediately while actual sick/hurt people are forced to wait.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

The fact that I have to explain to employees at a tech company that when they get a cellphone upgrade all they need to do to activate it is pop the SIM card out of their old device and put it in the new one. These are people that make triple what I do a year and deal directly with clients. Everytime this shit happens I get some long ass support email about "how bad the service is", and "the phone doesn't work", and mess of other exceptional shit that should be really obvious.

Then there are the people that have been here years, know the systems we work in, have had numerous updates on procedures, and yet somehow cannot change their passwords without massively fucking up and wasting everyone's time. It's a really simple process you either go to the company site to update or just hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and use the Windows option, since these machines are all on our domain. Yet somehow, these people that work with our clients, are completely incapable of following simple instructions. It's literally a 3 step process and they will call the helpdesk spazzing out about this shit right in front of clients. Like you dumb motherfuckers shit like this is why our parent company sold us.

The kicker is I'll always get some follow up email from my boss a few hours later wanting to know how these people can function and not do things like forget to breathe. So we vent, have a laugh, and I don't go to prison for murder.

 

[The Fair Lady]

Potential employers who say "We'll be in touch" or something similar but don't follow through. The radio silence is really appreciated.

 

[Xitaens]

people who take 10 years to slow down to a complete stop then turn when there was no stop sign or red light

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Potential employers who say "We'll be in touch" or something similar but don't follow through. The radio silence is really appreciated.

It's very frustrating to know employers can make job candidates jump through all sorts of hoops just to reach the interview stage, but they can't or won't take the time to follow up when they explicitly tell the interviewed, "We'll be in touch," or other similar language that indicates a future notification one way or another.

How hard is it to send a canned, "We appreciate your interviewing with us, but unfortunately you didn't make it to the next step of the hiring process. We'll keep your resume on file for (period of time). Best wishes with your job search."

 

[The Sauce Boss]

This one is very much specific to the food industry, as someone who serves tables.

Do not. Stiff. Your waiter. Because. The meal. Was bad.

Oh my FUCKING GOD, I cannot tell you how many people did this. It wasn't even a generational or demographic split, it was fuckin' EVERYWHERE. They bitched to you about the food, asked for the check, and then left after paying. Not even a cent for the waiter. I remember on a particularly bad holiday one of my coworkers broke down crying because she was stiffed by, I shit you not, 9 tables in a row (our restaurant's cooking staff, save for the sous-chef, dessert chef, fry cook and the head chef, were all fucking idiots). It's not our fault that our restaurant sucks. You wouldn't go to Wal-Mart and ask them to dock the cashier's pay because your cake tasted like shit, don't stiff your waiter unless they were an absolute fuckhead.